Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 gets its first teaser, and you’d better “be prepared for sadness”

Are you pretty happy right now? Well, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, the follow-up to that Cyberpunk 2077 Netflix anime, will make you nice and miserable when it arrives.

CD Projekt revealed this past weekend that the upcoming series, which’ll deliver a fresh standalone tale set in Night City, is currently in production. Animation studio Trigger have returned to work on Edgerunners 2, with Kai Ikarashi directing and Bartosz Sztybor wearing many hats as writer/showrunner/producer. Right, from here on there’ll be spoilers for the first Cyberpunk Edgerunners series, so you’ve been warned.

We didn’t get a release date for the 10 episode series as part of this official announcement that Edgerunners 2 is in the works, with CD Projekt only revealing that it’ll be hitting Netflix “in the future”. Which, er, yeah. There was a teaser, though, which was very clear that the first Edgerunners series’ protagonist has definitely kicked the bucket.

“David is dead,” it declares amid shots of Cyberpunky anime people doing Cyberpunky anime things, “but Night City lives on.” Thankfully, there was a bit more info than that, with multiple hat wearer Sztybor outlining that you can expect “a raw, real chronicle of redemption and revenge, something unlike what we’ve done before.”

That said, one aspect of the first series will be definitely coming to Edgerunners 2, with the writer telling folks on the Tweeter to “be prepared for sadness”. Yep, Edgerunners famously wasn’t afraid to leave you feeling like you’d just been kicked in the cybernuts and exposed to massive amounts of onion chopping, and you’d better get ready for something like that again.

During the panel that featured the Edgerunners 2 announcement, Sztybor outlined his approach to human stories in dystopian worlds with some all-time quotes. Are you Polish? Thoughts on the below welcome:

We’re the company from Poland. I’m from Poland. People in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad…when people are sad, I’m a bit happy.

So there you go, start stocking up on tissues and maybe setting aside some time to slide into five thousandth Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough once CD Projekt release that final, final, final patch they recently pushed back.